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To love the Earth (Brendan Comerford SJ) <Online>

We have only begun to love the EarthDenise Levertov

Poets help us to notice beauty in the commonplace. Brendan Comerford SJ will guide your reflection on the lives and insights of a number of poets whose faith and spirituality brought them to deep appreciation of their creaturehood. Their work continues to invite us into mystery, even if the details of their stories seem challenging or contradictory.

The lives and poetry of George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Patrick Kavanagh, R.S. Thomas, Denise Levertov and Elizabeth Jennings will be a stimulus for us to pray and to reflect on our relationship with God, on our own human nature and on the gift of the earth which is our sacred sanctuary.

Participation in this retreat will involve being given access to an online presentation on a different poet each morning; in the evening, Brendan will respond to any questions or comments which have been submitted by participants. The rest of the day is an invitation to participants to develop their own timetable around these daily elements.

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Each day between Monday 1 June and Saturday 6 June 2020 Brendan will offer a talk - recorded on video - on a selected poet. Those registered for the retreat can access these in their own time. Each talk will end with pointers to particular poems to encourage personal reflection and prayer.

Each evening at 7:00 p.m. there will be an opportunity to meet Brendan online (using Zoom) where there will be time for Brendan to respond to questions or comments offered by participants.